The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-12-02

wick Land Improvement and Colonization
Company Of Georgia from A. j. Rogers,
its president. The theft was committed
at the Old Colony depot in Boston, No
vember 4.
The remains OF w. ID Welch a travel
ing salesman for a Chicago seed house,
were taken to Waukegan, ILL.,, on the goth.
Welch had gone out duck hunting the day
before. The snow-storm came up, and
not returning a searching party was
formed, and his body was found in the
boat, frozen stiff, about two hundred yards
from the shore.
HENRY V. LESLIE and James A. L. VII
son, the embezzling secretary and treas
urer OF the Delaware &, Chesapeake Canal
Company, pleaded guilty in the Criminal
Court at Philadelphia, on the 21st, to con-
spiracy TO cheat and defraud that COM
pany Of a sum aggregating $500, 600 and
were sentenced TO eight and six years re-
spectively In the Eastern penitentiary.
AN unknown schooner sunk of Keno
sha, Wis, and probably all on board are
lost.
GILBERT CARTER, aged seventy-seven
years, his wife, an invalid about the same
age, aud Mrs. John Pepper, housekeeper,
were asphyxiated in their sleeping-rooms
at Hudson, n. Y, by gas from coal
stove, on the night Of the 2lst. They
were still alive nt last accounts, but un-
conscious, and with only slight hopes Of
their recovery.
A TERRIBLE explosion of atlas powder
| occurred in Hyde Park, Pa, on the 22d.
! The contractor in charge of the con-
struction Of the main sewer i'm that part
Of the city intrusted tho thawing out Of
/ the powder 10 some Hungarians and the
result was as stated. Two men were seri-
ously cut. Hundreds Of windows were
demolished and goods in several stores
were ruined.
A RUSSIAN marine disaster occurred
on the Gath In which thirty-five lives are
/ reported 20 have been lost.
FIRE destroyed the steamer Charles p.
! Chouteau with a cargo OF cotton on the
/ Lower Mississippi on the 2Sd. Two lives
wero lost.
A BATTLE between striking plantation
| hands and citizens in Louisiana resulted
| in the loss OF many lives.
FIVE THOUSAND persons attended the
funeral, on the 18th, OF the victims Of the
w. A. Scholten disaster, at Dover. There
was a general suspension Of business
The Queen has sent message of SYM
pathy to the bereaved families.
A DISPUTE, terminating with fatal ''gun
plays" occurred between party of cow
boys at Billings, Mont.
AT Ravenna, O., on the 23d Ju dge John
son overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of "Blinkey" Morgan,
and sentenced the prisoner to be hanged
i'm the psnitentiary at Columbus, March
| 16, 1883.
CHARLES KITCHEN, n highly respected
citizon OF New Hope, Bucks County, Pa,
was shot there on the morning of the 25d
by Harry Z. Gettys, and expired in about
twenty minutes. Gettys gives as his rea
son for the murder that Kitchen was the
! destroyer OF his home. Gettys is also a
/ highly respected citizen, sober and in
| dustrious.
A FIRE broke out near Portrero, in the
suburbs Of San Francisco, on the 25th, and
| destroyed two blocks OF dwelling houses,
rendering over forty families homeless.
Loss estimated at $4,000
S. G.. +. INsLEY, aged thirty, and his
/ mother, aged sixtyfivc blew out the gas
/ upon retiring at the Howard House al
! Newton, Kas., ON the night Of the oath.
| They viii probably die They were go
ing from Illinois to Kingman County,
/ Kas
THE Memphis (Tenn.) police made i'm.
| portant arrests on the night of the 25th in
the persons of W. j. Noff, z. T. Conway,
| y. III. johnson and John Ford, four river
/ pirates, who have committed many dep
rotations between Cairo aud Memphis.
| Two freight trains ON the Whee ling
division Of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
collided near Cochrane Mills, fifteen miles
| from Pittsburgh, Pa, ON the morning of
tho 25th. Both trains were completely
demolished and three men killed and five
others injured.
In has been discovered that the late
| Charles Albert Keber, the Cincinnati at
torney who committed suicide, was driver
to the deed by the approaching revelation
OF heavy forgeries committed by him in
| the management OF estates and of trust
funds committed to his care.
/ ANOTHER batch of nlibi testimony wal
introduced in the Coughlin trial at Ra-
VIENNA, o., on the 25lh. During the after
noon experts in peumanship were called
70 prove that Coughlin wrote the name
on the register Of the Metropolitan Hote
at Elyria ON February 4, the day of th'
Raveuna tragedy.
PATSY SHEA, young man of twenty
five years, who has been employed on tn
Burlington a. Missouri road, at Lincoln
Neb., for the last two months, was kilIe'
on the morning Of the 25th while attempt
ing TO make a coupling.
THE jury in the Scholten inquest at Do
yer, England, returned an opinion that tn
/ collision was due to n error on the par
Of the officers Of the Scholten, in trying &
cross the bows Of the Rosa Mary withon
making allowance for the strong tide
which was flowing.
AT an early hour on the morning OF tn
Goth the Standard Theater at Siolx City
Ia, was discovered to be on fire, ant
shortly afterwards was reduced q ashes
together with the entire wardrobes an
properties Of the place.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Governments receipts during tn
present month, up 70 the 2lst, amounts